Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Nd/Cr:YAG Ceramic Pulse Laser

Table 1

Bandwidth and TLP for each laser material.

	Ti:sapphire	Nd:YAG [7]	Nd:YVO4 [7, 8]	Nd/Cr:YAG ceramic Cr 0.1 at.%
Bandwidth (nm)	230	0.45 [7]	0.8 [7]	1.7
Calculated pulse duration of the TLP (ps)	0.0036	3.7	2.1	0.98

TLP: transform-limited pulse. Spectral emission waveform: Gaussian shape was assumed.